Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-08-26
WANTS.
Local News.

Local IN 0WS.
John Proctor, of the town of Min
eral Point, had valuable horse killed
by lightning on last Sunday night.
The twenty seventh annual fair of
the Union Agricultural Society will be
held at Warren, H., on Sept 20, p, y,
%, 1887.
Read the new advertisement of the
b. Becker, proprietor of the Mineral
Point marble and granite works, to be
found in The Democrat.
Joseph Gordon last week sold to j.
4. owen three very fine Poland China
pigs, which the latter shipped to Da-
kOta with other stock.
John McArdle, of the town of Min
eral Point, had a fine crop of wheat
this year. Fifteen acres yielded 343
bushels, or nearly % bushels per acre;
which is not very bad for a dry season.
Superintendent i. w. McKenna and
other other officers of the c. NJ. Il St
F. railway company were in town on
Monday evening examining employees
on the new rules Of the road.
George f. Cabanis, Principal of our
public schools has removed with his
his family to this city. They occupy
the VIM. J. Cox residence in the
second ward. The fall term of our
school will commence on Monday, Sep
TENDER, 18th.
The fair grounds and buildings are
being put in readiness for the fair to
be held September 6, z, s and 9. y
large number of horse stalls and cattle
sheds are being erected, and prepare
tons are being made for an immense
exhibition generally.
William Hopper, formerly of Linden,
but now of Walnut, Iowa, sends The
Democrat copy of The Council Bluffs
Globe, which contains an account of
most destructive fire, or rather con
tlagration, which occurred at Walnut
on Tuesday of last week. 1t is sup
posed the fire was set by an incendiary.
The Noble Bros, of Monroe are
shipping large quantities of fine water
melons into southwestern Wisconsin
from southern Iowa. A ar-load which
they shipped to this city on Thursday
was purchased by Brewer 4 Pen
hallegon of the Cash Grocery House,
who now have the melons for sale.
They are fine ones.
On Saturday, Aug. ID, J. c. Mickey,
of the town of Waldwick, threShed
from the crop grown on fifteen acres
of ground ia bushels of oats, which
weighed thirty-six pounds to the
measured bushel. AS this is yield
of almost forty eight measured bush
els per acre, 1t is not very bad for a
dry season. Who can beat it?
From DR.. II. l.. Stevens, formerly of
Iowa county, The Democrat has re-
ceived copy of The Daily Boomerang,
published at Laramie, Wyoming, Aug
II, containing fine picture of the
new University of Wyoming, Just
built at Laramie, and also full de
scription of the building, which is in
deed Il fine structure, and will doubt
less be we'll supplied with facilities for
acquiring knowledge. Wyoming is
evidently looking well after her ed
ucational interests.
Two dry seasons in succession have
never before been experienced by the
residents of southwest Wisconsin
The memory of the oldest inhabitant
runneth not back to the time whe1
such long continued drouths prevailed
And vet it seems we have been more
scared than hurt. With the single ex
ception of hay there will be fai
crop of everything this season. Some
sections have suffered badly, but or
the whole there is no good reason t
complain. Wheat has yielded well, anG
there is fair yield of oats and barley
Farmers report unprecedented crops O
corn. The drouth eff the past season
has been general, and where we hay,
suffered other sections have suffere,
also. In many portions of the west an,
southwest the failure of crops has beer
far greater than here, and it will b.
we'll to bear in mind that, taken yea
in and year out. there is no more pro
ductive spot to be found anywher
than the blue grass region of Wis
consin. No one need sigh for NOR
! healthful climate, or for fairer skies
4 or more productive fields; no one nee,
: put any confidence in the overdraw1
: pictures of newer sections of the ives
and northwest. The wealth which ha
: been reaped from our fields is a sui
4 ticient proof of their rich productive
ness. During the past few wears
large portion of this wealth has bee
employed in buying and settling II
lands in the west. No other part c
the country could stand such drai
: as has been made upon our resources
and money is not scarcer here to-da
than it is elsewhere. There is no o,
u casion whatever for crying about han
t. times With one or two favorab
) seasons our temporary loss will be NOR